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"The Saloon Has No Rights"

The time has not come when just and
wholesome law will be permitted to remain
as dead letter; but the time is fast ap-
preaching when tho insolence and lawless-
ness of the saloon will be effe:tually sup
pressed. A sentiment in that direction is
rapidly developing, and nothing has done
more to quicken it than the saloon itself. Its
disregard for law, its arrogance, its lobbying
in legislative halls and debating to conven.
tions and caucuses have done more than all
else to create sentiment against it that will
control it or suppress it altogether. 1t should
consider that it has no claim on the public at
all. 1t is no part of legitimate industry; it
has no place in commercial prosperity. 1t
exists in opposition to all principles Of indus
trial and commercial interests. The people
have the highest right recognizable to sup
press it entrely-the right Of self protection.
For the saloon to talk OF its rights is foolish:
1t has none 1t exists only by sutferance, and
there is nothing OIL which it can base a claim
for protection. 1t is an industry that weak
ems everything it touches, one that addsnoth-
ing to Individual or national prosperity, but
is heavy burden upon both. The revenue
it yields is too Insignificant, compared to the
tax it makes necessary, to speak of.-Chica9o
Current.
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Mr.. Evarts Got q Reply.

At New York city, in the fall of 1867 a
case was tried before Judge Sutherland,
in which the law firm of Evarts, South
mayd & Choate appeared for the defence.
Mr. Evarts made the concluding argu-
ment, and the fame of the great coun-
selor secured for him considerable audi
ence of lawyers from neighboring courts,
in addition to many persons who had
more or less interest in the proceedings.
Mr.. Evarts had been speaking for some
hours and was evidently nearing his per-
oration. He began to sum up his argu-
ments, and asked impressively what an
swer could be made to them. Again ne
placed the points in lucid array, and
again asked similar question. Then a
third time he restated lis case with vivid
eloquence, and once more, in louder
tones, wound up with:
"What is their answer"
He paused. You could have heard a
min drop. Suddenly the door of the
court room opened, and a peddler, stick
ing his head and feather duster into
the opening, cried out:
"Brooms"
In a moment the room was ringing
with uncomfortable laughter in which
everybody ioined-even the judge on the
bench and the orator himself. Mr.. Evarts,
however, kept on his feet, and was the
first to recover composurc. With his
hand raised to command attention, as the
roar subsidized, he said solemnly:
"That was not, indeed, the reply which
I expected. But you may rest assured
that when you do get their answer you
will find It equally frivolous and incon-
seouent. t.-Ameriean Mayasi"s.
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Polished by Travel.

A Washington correspondent tells of a
young man who has afforded no little
amusement to society there. His father
died some time ago, leaving him for
tune. The youngster, with a great
flourish, went to England, and upon his
return recently, an acquaintance asked :
"Did you visit the Tower9"
"No."
"Did you see Westminister2"
"No."
"Didn't you see Parliament in ses-
sion2'
"No."
"Well, what in the world did you do
s.broadl"
81 brought back six brand new over
coats of the latest fashion," was the
young mans summing up of the result of
his trip.-Clothier and Fu,nishier.
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Romeo and Juliet.

He Qanguishing)-"I have been hoping
that you would in time come to regard
me as your company"
She (bashfully)-Company! "What
do you mean by that9"
He (courageously)-"Well, as your
beau"
She (blushingly)-"Oh! That's what
company means"
He (smilingly)-"Yes. And if you
consider me as your company I should
like to consider you as my misery"
She (wonderingly)-"Your misery3"
He (triumphantiy)-"Yes, because,
you know, misery loves company"
She (demurely)-"I see. Well admit
then that you are company and misery.
Eut don't you think misery a very disa-
greeable name for q girl, and that it
ought to be changed-say to company"
Then he popped. Boston Courier.
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Humble Pie.

To seat humble pie" is to knock un-
der, to be submissive. This expression
arose from the fact that the umbles, or
cntrails, and other unprimc parts of a
deer, were anciently made into dish TOR
servants, while their masters feasted of
the haunch. DR.. Brewer says of this ex-
preston: "'To cat humble pie, is to
come down from position you have as
sumed, to be obliged to take lower
room.' 'Umbles' are the heart, liver and
entrails of the deer, the huntsman's per-
ouisites. When the lord and his house
hold dined the venison pastry was served
on the dais, but the umbles were made
into pie for the and naT ana ms boh e1
diminutives of pastry. Pastry and patty
are limited to venison, veal and some
few other meats; pie is of far wider sig
ni6cance, including fruit, mince, etc.
Globe. Democrat.
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HowThermometers Are Made,

III thermometers were oil OF UNIFORM
caliber and graded accurately there
would, of course, be no difference in
their records. But the fact is that many
are imperfectly made and carelessly
graded, and these, of course, will give
widely differing results. The first point
in the construction of the mercurial ther-
mometer is to see that the tube is of uni
form caliber throughout its whole in
terror. To ascertain this short column
of mercury is put into the tube and
moved up and down, to see if its length
remains the same through all parts of the
tube. If tube whose caliber is not uni
form is used slight differences are made
in its graduation to allow for it. A scale
of equal parts is etched upon the tube,
and from observations of the inequalities
of the column of mercury moved in it a
table giving the temperatures corre-
spending to these divisions is formed. A
bulb is now blown on the tube, and while
the open end of the latter is dipped into
mercury heat is applied to the bulb to
expand the air in it. The heat is then
Withdrawn, and, the air within contract
ing, portion of the mercury rises in
the tube and partly fills the bulb. To the
open end of the tube a funnel containing
mercury is fitted, the bulb placed over
a fame until it boils, thus expelling all
air and moisture from the instrument,
and, on cooling, the tube instantly fills
with mercury. The bulb is now placed
in some hot fluid causing the mercury
within it to expand and flow over the top
of the tube, and when this overflow has
ceased the open end of the tube is heated
with blow-pipe fame. To graduate the
instrument, the bulb is placed in melting
ice, and, when the top of the mercury
column has fallen as low as it will, note
is taken of its position referred to the
scale on the tube. This is the freezing
point: 1t is marked as zero on the ther-
mometers of Kelsius and Reaumur, and
as 32o on the Fahrenheit system. To
determine the boiling point, the instru-
ment is placed in a metallic vessel with
double walls, between which circulates
the steam from boiling water. Between
the freezing and boiling point of water
1OO Cqudl SlCSlCCo oAS AAoi NV 49, sAS
centigrade graduation of Celsius, 1870
degrees on the Fahrenheit plan, and 80
degrees on the Reaumur. On many ther-
mometers all three of these graduations
are indicated on the frame to which the
tube is attached. Some weeks after
thermometer has been made and graded
it may be noticed that when the bnlb is
immersed in pounded ice the mercery
does not quite descend to the freezing
point. This is owing to a gradual ex-
pansion of the mercury which usually
goes on for nearly two years, when it is
found that the zero has risen nearly a
whole degree. 1t is then necessary to
side down the scale to which the tube is
fastened so that it will read accurately
the movements of the. mercury. After
this change, the accuracy of the thermo-
meter is assured, as there is no further ex-
pansion of the mercury column.-hter-
Ocean,.
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A Green Recruit.

Adiutant General E. B. Gray, of Madi-
son, Wis, favored the members of Ran
som Post, G. A. r., with little talk re-
Gently. In the course of his remarks he
referred to the general Ignorance of the
first recruits in all matters pcrtainining to
the army and navy, and stated that the
North had very few real soldiers the first
two years of the war. AS an illustration
of this point he related the following in
cident:
"Soon after the first call for troops was
issued, "he said, "a member of one of the
newly organized regiments which had
lust been quartered at Washington was
strolling about the city one day when he
stumbled into the navy yard. His curl
osity was very much excited at what he
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Temperance Notes.

At recent local-option election, Harrison
burg, Va, went dry" by 244 majority.
The casting vote of the Speaker defeated
Prohibition in the Newfoundland Legislature.
The Chicago Tribune says: abandoned
breweries are being converted into canning
factories in Kansas.
The Austin P,'ohibitionist prints list Of
172 Texas newspapers, 12S of which are for,
aud 4S against, prohibition
Representative Grain, Of Texas, says the
Prohibition vote in his State will be much
stronger than some people suppose.
The Sumter IS. C.) Temperance Worker
asks: "Shall the State hold vested interest
in drunkenizing its citizenShip|
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A King Among Pineapples.

Mr.. Joseph Hahn, of Washington
street, has got the "boss" pineapple of
the season; in fact it is a mass meeting
of seven pineapples. From the base of
one exceedingly big apple grow six little
ones that are as sound and healthy as an
onion patch. The whole conglomera-
ton measures three feet around the base,
is two feet long and weighs twenty-five
pounds. 1t grew in the West Indies
and did not cause a revolution. MIR;
Hahn is going to keep it for a month and
then take up an offer OF slo Tor lt.-Ne"
York. Herald.
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She was Equal to Him.

Hostetter Nc cGinnis--" "Miss Esmerelda,
Elove your
Miss Esmerelda-"But it's all a mis-
Lake about my being rich. I am a poor
girl. Mr.. McGinnis.
"You didn't let me finish my sentence.
was going to say loved you not'-
"That's all right, Mr.. NIcGinnis. I
was only testing your affections. I have
a fortune of 800, 900 in my own name. "
"Why do you interrupt me1 ! was
saying love you not on account of your
money, but for yourself alone"
"I'm glad to hear it. That was all a
joke about the 500, ,00O," replied Es-
neralda.
McGinnis looked as if he was not feel
ing well.-T'sras Sttings.
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No Fear, No Hope.

Robert Owen once visited gentleman
who was a believer. In walking out,
they came to the gentleman's family
grave; Owen, addressing him, said:
''There is one advantage have over
Christisns-I am not afraid to die.
Most Christians are afraid to die, bit if
some of my business was settlei., =
should be perfectly willing to die at any
moment" "Well," said his companion,
"you say you have no fear in death !;
have you any hope in death2" After a
solemn pause he replied, "No!' "Then, {"
replied the gentleman, pointing to an
OK standing near, "you are on level
with that brute; he has fed till he is
satisfied, and stands in the shade
whisking off the flies, and has reither
hope nor fear" "-[old Testament Anec-
dotes.
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The Saloon and the Dangerous
Glasses.

The Toledo Blade, commenting upon the
baleful influence of the saloon. says:
THE saloon is an evil in numberless ways;
but especially is it an evil i'll that it makes
itself a focus, rallying-point, for these
dangerous classes of society. Not only of the
passively dangerous, the ignorant and un-
learned, but the actively dangerous
men who turn of their own free choice to vice
and crime rather than to honest labor and a
pure life. 1t brings these men together, it af-
fords them common meeting-point, it en-
courages their combination to compass evil
and wrongdoing that would be impossible or
impracticable to but one alone, or two or
three. The saloon, we repeat, is especially an
evil in that it is club room for the vicious
and criminal classes, primary school where
in the foolish, the ignorant, become inocu-
lated with the warped views of life held by
the criminal classes, and in the end become
recruits for this army Of vice which is q
menace to the peace and prosperity o. the
nation"
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TEMPERANCE.
Life in the Glad Saloon.

Life in the Glad Saloon.
Talk not of woe in the shining cup,
Prate not of hapless men,
Here's brandy red-fll your glasses up,
Then drink and fill again.
Quaff the nectar sweet,
Where choice spirits meet,
Beneath the blazing dome,
Where polished mirrors gleam
Like the suns meridian beam,
Well drink to the hearts at home.
Drink till the dawn and sleep till the noon,
Hail the sleepless night and the gay saloon
Hark! to the merry click and clink
OF the glasses crystal rim,
Where full to the glossy brink
They flash to the goblet's brim-
With vintage divine,
With golden wine,
And every drop is red,
Red with the blood of manly hearts,
Victims from offices, shops, and marts
Who rest with the countless dead,
Obi the palace of wine is a sacred boon
And the glory of life is glad saloon.
Come! drink of the vintage sweet
Of the grape-the corn and rye,
In the bar-room gay we meet.
And the sun of mirth beams high,
Where flashes bright
The electric light,
Though the giddy brain may reel,
Reel. with the flow of heated gin
The fumes of rum and the dregs Of sin,
Where crime sets its loathsome seal
Dimming the sunlight and clouding the moon;
Yet there's nothing so bright as glided sa-
loon.
Who cares for the preachers ire!
Or the famished widows wall!
For the drunken, tottering sire,
Or the shivering orphan pale'
Who cares for the tear
On the drunkard's bier'
Or the wife or mothers signs?
Or grave in the potter's field, alone,
Unmarked with cross or mound, or stone,
Where the poor inebriate lies'
March on to the same eternal tune,
A pauper's grave and bright saloon.
Charles J. Beattie, in Inter- Ocean.
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Heart Troubles.

Two young ladies were sitting together
in street car One of them was very
pale and thin and seemed to be suffering.
At the next corner the invalid got up and
left the car. A gentleman who had been
sitting opposite said to the remaining
lady:
Excuse me. lam physician. Iper-
ccive you friend is an invalid"
eyes," was the reply; "she has heart
trouble"
"Probably an aneurism."
"No, a West Point cadet. ."-SJtings.
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A Palpable Hit.

Miss Fair-"Now, Mr.. Mundogsky, as
you are painter and an admirer of the
beautiful you must admire my friend
Miss Rosep
Mundogsky-"Ah! but we painters
admire only the real beauties in nature,
and am told that your friend paints
those charms we are told to admire"
Miss Fit is gross SANDER, I assure
you. I have known her for years, and
she no more paints than--you do" ."-Judye.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
Home Of the Blessed.
Those eternal bowers

Home Of the Blessed.
Those eternal bowers
Man hath never trod,
Those unfading flowers
Round the throne of God:
Who may hope to gain them
After weary fghtl
Who at length attain them,
Clad in robes Of white?
He who gladly barters
All Or earthly ground;
He who Ike the martyrs
Says I WILL be crowned;
He whose one oblation
Is a LIFE Of love;
CIingiug to the nation
Or the blest above.
st. John Damastene
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Stood High.

elbow about this young man that
comes so often to see you, Millie2n said
the old gentleman to his daughter.
HWhy, he's very nice and entertaining,
papa. I'd like to have you meet him."
every likely. But what is his position2
Does he stand high in society2"
"Oh, yes indeed, papa" Heis six feet
two. .n-Merchant IraoeLer.
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VIII. Parkinson, of Mineral Point.
Wis while sowing oats found a gold
RING on the point of one of the seeder-
teeth The ring was lost about thirty
wears ago by a young lady in passing
over the farm.
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riendl-WAnd You like INV

Author TO friend)-'And you like my
storiesi"
Friend--"Yes."
Author--"Which do you like best2"
Friend--"The shortest one. "-Arkan-
sap Trare!er.
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Glory to GodI all our dangers are o'er.
We stand secure on the glorifed shore;
Glory to God! we will shout evermore,
We're home at last"
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.

A Doubtful Compliment-AP PaIpable
Hit-Stood High-Heart Troubles
Romeo and Juliet - Pol
ished by Travel, Etc.
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Young Men.

printers, the majority OF whom are young
men; and in the course of my INQUIRIES
IN various directions have found that
scarcely five per cent of the young men
had any church connection whatever.
The great majority of crimes committed
in the city are committed by the young
men; of the thirty y-eight thousand per-
sons arrested last year, a great majority
was made up of young men. The average
age of the convicts of ths Joliet State
Prison is twenty-five years."
Some of these young men have been
trained by goddess parents; some of them
have been trained in a goddess way by
parents protesting godliness. Many Of
them have never seen much of that
religion which the Apostle describes as
pure and undefled. Some of them may
have been disgusted with spurious
article, with the religion of those men
whom the same Apostle James declares
have not the faith of Christ, the Lord of
glory, for if there came into the assem-
bly, rich man with q gold ring and
goodly apparel, they say to him, "Sit
thou here in a good place." whilc to q
poor man is said, stand there, or sit
under my footstool."
Many OF these young men have no
faith in religion which does not affect
the lives and business, and private char
actcr of the men who profess it. And so
they are drifting off into skcpticism and
unbeiief
The work of the Church is not done.
A new generation is springing up around
US. Every day persons are needing in.
struction, guidance and salvation. And
especially for the salvati.n of the young
should unceasing effort be put forth.
How shall we meet the young men Of
this day in the presence of the Judge of
all the earth, if We allow them to drift
on in tar ness to pe:dition, when by
faithfu.ness and diligence we might
have turned their feet into the way Of
Gods testimonies ?-IChristian, Boston.
Cold prayers are like arrows without
heads, swords without edges, birds with
out wings; they pierce not, they cut not,
they fly not up to heaven. Those prayers
that have no heavenly fire in them
always freeze before they reach as high
as heaven: but fervent prayer is very
prevalent with God.-LSpurgeon.
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The Funeral Procession OF ia cob.

This must have been very grand
funeral procession-and that for three
hun ired miles-such as the world has
seldom seen. There were not only the
family of Israel-and not only the Off
GERS of the court, "the servants Of
Pharaoh"-but "the elders of Egypt"
or the grandees ef the empire. There
were also chariots and horsemen, 80 that
with the attendants taken with them by
so many high person =, the camp was very
great, as the text itself states. The
terms would seem to suggest that the
party was strong in military point of
view. There is tradition among the
Jews that Joseph contemplated the pos
sibility Of an attack from the family OF
Esau, which also claimed the Cave Of
Machpelah. and that it actually came to
battle between the two parties, in
which Joseph was victorious. Even in
the present age, SO rich caravan could
not pass through those countries with.
out On armed escort, sufficiently strong
to protect it against the predatory at
tacks of the desert Arabs. The object
of the sacred historian is, however,
simply to indicate the grandeur and
magnifcence of Jacobs obsequies,
which. indeed, seem to b, without a
parallel in history. [Kitto's Bible Illus
trations.
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est cnilQ OF Cne hOuSenOld, the one \ no asked
the most curious questions, and stood around
you with the greatest fondness, and the spade
cut down through your bleeding heart. Per-
hapS 1t was an only son, and your heart has
ever since been like the deSolated castle, the
owls Of the night hooting among the falling
arches and the crumbling stairways.
Perhaps it was an aged mother. You
always went to her with your troubles She
was in your home to welcome your children
into life, and when they died she was there to
pity you; that old hand will do you no more
kindness; that white lock of hair you put
away in the locket didn't look as it usually
did when she brushed it away from her
wrinkled brow in the home circle or in the
country church. Or your property gone,
you said: II have so much bank stock, l
have so many Government securities, have
so many houses, have so many farmS'-all
gone, all gone.
Why, sir, all the storms that ever trampled
their thunders, all the shipwrecks have not
been worse than this to you. Yet you
have not been completely overthrown. Why !?
Christ hushed the tempest Your little one
as taken away. Christ says: Il have that
lttle one in my keeping 1 can care for him
bereaved mother !" flushing the tempest.
When your property went away God said:
'sThere are treasures in heaven, in banks that
never break" Jesus hushing the tempest.
There is one storm into which we will all
have to rum The moment when we let go Of
this life, and try to take hold of the next, we
will want all the grace possible. Yonder
see Christian soul rocking on the surges Of
death; all the powers of darkness seem to let
out against the soul-the Swirilng wave, the
thunder of the sky, the Shrek of the wind
ali seem to unite together; but that soul is
not troubled; there is no signing, there are nc
tears; plenty of tears in the room at the de
parture, but he weeps no tears; calm, salts
fed, peaceful; all is we'll. By the flash of the
storm you see the harbor just ahead, and you
are making for that harbor. All shall be
well, Jesus hushing The tempest.
| "Into the hsrbor Of heaven now we glide;
We're home at last home at last.
Softly we drift on its bright, sily'ry tide,
We're home at last